The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-07-02

Tho largest landed proprietor in the world
lives in Connecticut. He owns 100000 acres of
land and his name is Wilson Waddingham.
-Guiteau's skeleton-head, feet and all-is one
of the appetizing sights presented to the gaze of
the morbidly curious visitors to Washington.
Tho anti-B eecher faction in Plymouth Church
pronounce the rumor that Mrs. Stoves son is to
succeed Mr.. Beecher ga delightful little bit of rot"
whatever that may be.
Warren Jackson, colored, messenger in the
Office of the State Treasurer at Harrisburg, has de-
cided to bring suit against ice cream dealer in
that city for refusing him plate of cream.
Willis H. Bocock, who was last week elected
professor of Greek in Hampden Sidney College,
Virginia, is said to be the youngest college profes.
sor in the United States. He is % years old.
The California State VitcIltural Commission
estimate the wine crop for 1887 at 100000 gal
Ions. If the vintage equals the estimate it will
be the largest in the history of the Golden State
Governor "Bob" Taylor, of Tennessee, is very
Democratic in his habits. He rises at in the
morning and reads his paper till about if undis-
turbed. As soon as his children wake up he goes
to their room and dresses them.
-Rembrandt's famous etching of "Christ Heal
ing the Sick" has been bought by the British Mu-
scum for $4,000. There are but eight impressions
of this etching in existence, and the last, which
came the market in 1867, brought S9,400
"A Bethlehem, Pa, fruit grower claims to have
successfully grated a peach shoot a snssafras
tree, and a new fruit of high flavor is expected.
If this discovery should be confirmed, it will be
boon to large area in the Southern States, where
the soil seems to produce sassafras in great album
dance.
Amy Avant, colored woman on the planta-
tion of Major James Reaves, in Marion County,
S. c., died few days ago, of measles, at the ad-
vanced age of 122 years. She was remarkably
well preserved, and retained all her faculties up to
the time Of her fatal illness, previous to which she
claimed that she had never taken dose of medi-
cine. During the last cotton picking season, she
took her place regularly in the cotton fields and
always performed good days work. Her age is
well attested by family records.
John s. WISE who is to deliver the Fourth Of
July grafton in Philadelphia, says the Times, is a
chip of the old block, the noted Governor Henry
A. Wise, of Virginia, and he is as able as he is in
dependent. He was the last Republican candidate
for Governor against General Fitz Hugh Lee, and
made q most gallant fight on the stump, but even
the prestige of Wise could not successfully wres-
tie with the prestige of Lee. Wise is brilliant
orator, and he will more than merit the expecta-
tions of the city of Independence Hall in his COM
ing GRAFTON.
The Richmond Wing denies Henry Georges
assertion that the tendency of the times is toward
large farms, and that the lands of the country
being rapidly absorbed by few rich men. 1t is
untrue at least so far as the South is concerned,
and the Wig says.- "This sinh di .ision would be
even more rapid than it is if purchasers could be
found, for there is plenty of land for sale very
cheap in the South" If the Anti Poverty Soce-
ty would form a colony in Virginia-say along
the line of Lees retreat from Richmond to Apo
mattox-it could get enough land almost for the
asking to give it chance to practice its doctrine
of "the land for the people," and to enable it to
show several million doubling Thomases in the
United States how the scheme would work.